Konoha, the Hokage's Office.
Hiruzen Sarutobi studied the documents in his hands carefully, his brows tightly furrowed.
After finishing, Hiruzen Sarutobi looked up at the people before him again.
Bieshu Feifan, who resembled a giant banana, was drinking his tea and shaking his head.
Seeing Hiruzen Sarutobi look up, a man with dry, sallow skin, sitting in a wheelchair with an IV drip on the other side of the office, immediately demanded sternly:
"Lord Hokage, now that you've finished reading, hurry up and arrest this banana."
This man was, of course, Shūbiàndiàodiào.
But Shūbiàndiàodiào looked rather thin now, and his spirits were low.
His previous high spirits were nowhere to be seen.
Hearing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed through his nose.
"Feifan, do you have anything to say?
The Shubian Nobles say you tormented them for half a month. Is that true?"
Bieshu Feifan set down his teacup and shook his head.
"Nothing of the sort. Monkey, don't listen to his nonsense.
He's a kept man with an idiotic brain that wants to visit an enemy country during wartime. He doesn't have adequate cognitive ability.
Just treat his words as noise."
Hearing Bieshu Feifan's words, Shūbiàndiàodiào immediately roared from his wheelchair.
"Lord Hokage, look, he's still slandering me.
When I went to the Land of Wind this time, they knocked my guards unconscious first, then hauled me off to the Land of Wind.
He didn't even follow the established route.
Instead, he took me to a deserted stretch of desert,
and they ignored me. I nearly died!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi's head ached a little.
"Feifan, is what he said true?"
Bieshu Feifan shook his head.
"Everything he said is a lie.
When we set out, his guards were still sleeping. We couldn't wake them no matter how we called.
But he still